Guihua Yu
John J. McKetta Centennial Energy Chair in Engineering
University of Texas at Austin
A Soft Material Paradigm for Addressing Energy-Water Nexus Challenges
04.17.26 | 12:15pm | FGH 134
Dr. Guihua Yu is the John J. McKetta Centennial Energy Chair Professor of Materials Science and Engineering and Mechanical Engineering at University of Texas at Austin, and a core faculty member of Texas Materials Institute and UT Energy Institute. His research broadly focuses on the creative synthesis and self-assembly of functional organic and hybrid nanomaterials, as well as the fundamental understanding of their unique chemical and physical properties to address frontier challenges in advanced energy, environmental and sustainability technologies.
Yu has published ~380 peer-reviewed scientific papers in leading journals and has been recognized as a Highly Cited Researcher in both Materials Science and Chemistry by Web of Science since 2017. He is a member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts and a Fellow of AAAS, MRS, RSC, IOP, IMMM, and IAAM.
Previous speakers include:
- Arjun Yodh, University of Pennsylvania, 2025
- Gang Chen, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2024
- Peidong Yang, University of California, Berkeley, 2023
- Mark Brongersma, Stanford University, 2022
- John Rogers, Northwestern University, 2020
- Naomi Halas, Rice University, 2019
- George Whitesides, Harvard University, 2018
- Michael Strano, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2018
- Paul Weiss, University of California, Los Angeles, 2016
- Ted Sargent, University of Toronto, 2015
- Mostafa El-Sayed, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2014